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Plenty of room

The high-speed railway line would indeed take away some food-producing land, but it would be a very small proportion
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Sir, The potential wheat yield of 18,000 tons per year from the land taken by High Speed 2 (letter, Mar 7) is completely insignificant compared with the 180 million tons that might be grown on the remainder.

Professor Roderick A. Smith
Imperial College London